Patents by Inventor John A. McDill

John A. McDill has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for cleansing, linking and appending data records of a database
    Patent number: 8682866
    Abstract: A system and method for reading a data record from an input file only once, processing that data record according to one or more references files, and then writing out the cleansed and updated data record to a target file such that the data record is read and written to remote storage only once, thereby making a single pass through a given database of data records. Each data record (comprising of multiple data elements) of the input file is reviewed, verified, and corrected against one or more reference databases containing similar information, assigned a unique identifying key, and, optionally, appended with new additional data elements of a matching data record from a new-data database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: OnePass Data Solutions LLC
    Inventors: John A. McDill, Charles Loren Kettler
  • System and method for cleansing, linking and appending data records of a database
    Patent number: 7376680
    Abstract: A system and method for reading a data record from an input file only once, processing that data record according to one or more reference files, and then writing out the cleansed and updated data record to a target file such that the data record is read and written to remote storage only once, thereby making a single pass through a given database of data records. Each data record (comprising of multiple data elements) of the input file is reviewed, verified, and corrected against one or more reference databases containing similar information, assigned a unique identifying key, and, optionally, appended with new additional data elements of a matching data record from a new-data database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Inventors: Charles Loren Kettler, John A. McDill